Discussion articles upvoted 20-30 would automatically move to Main.
Many 20+ Discussion posts don’t belong in Main, and also giving admins control of what gets promoted from Discussion to Main requires a lot of both power and oversight on the part of the admins. Giving people the option to move their articles from Discussion to Main themselves, after 20 karma, could work, but would make the posting process more complicated for newer people or older people who didn’t get the memo.
Very few posts get +20, only a rare one gets +30, so demoting an occasional outlier would not be a very onerous task. That said, simply restricting the ability to post to Main will stop those with more ego than common sense.
I think Will meant that some posts didn’t belong in main for reasons other than merit. For instance, Vladimir_Nesov’s latest post was based on a great and original idea, had an excellent exposition, and could easily have broken 20 karma points—but he was airing it for discussion, and he’d probably rather not do a top-level post on the idea until he feels it’s ready for that.
Many 20+ Discussion posts don’t belong in Main, and also giving admins control of what gets promoted from Discussion to Main requires a lot of both power and oversight on the part of the admins. Giving people the option to move their articles from Discussion to Main themselves, after 20 karma, could work, but would make the posting process more complicated for newer people or older people who didn’t get the memo.
Very few posts get +20, only a rare one gets +30, so demoting an occasional outlier would not be a very onerous task. That said, simply restricting the ability to post to Main will stop those with more ego than common sense.
Well, there is a karma threshold.
I think Will meant that some posts didn’t belong in main for reasons other than merit. For instance, Vladimir_Nesov’s latest post was based on a great and original idea, had an excellent exposition, and could easily have broken 20 karma points—but he was airing it for discussion, and he’d probably rather not do a top-level post on the idea until he feels it’s ready for that.